About Me

I’m a creator. I’m a problem solver and an innovator. I spend my days tinkering and experimenting. Dabbling with this, playing with that. I’m not afraid to try something new, different, or in my own way. I’m driven to create and innovate so I can improve my skills and stay on top of the changes of the fast moving tech world.
But don’t get confused, my head isn’t full of just ones and zeros, I’m actually a musician cleverly disguised as a programmer. I can create and improvise on a set of strings just as equally as I can on a keyboard and mouse. As an artist and an academic, I bring intuitive design and effective programming to my projects and applications.

Contact Details

Alex Welk
9050 Twelvestones Dr
Roswell, GA 30076
(678) 315-3206
[email protected]

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Work

Rocket Partners

Senior Software Engineer • 10/24 - 06/25

• Built and maintained Terraform infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines to streamline service deployment, while introducing cross-team best practices to reduce service dependencies and improve system modularity
• Introduced new testing paradigms by enforcing code coverage and integration tests through build pipelines while working with stakeholders to include automated regression suites in projects' definition of done
• Developed robust and resilient IoT software with remote monitoring and automatic failover, ensuring uninterrupted operation across thousands of devices

Onyx IQ

Solutions Architect • 03/24 - 06/24

• Proactively identified and documented critical security vulnerabilities, proposed effective solutions, and presented findings to technical staff, significantly enhancing company's security posture
• Engaged with customers to gather feature requests and evaluated the technical feasibility for product enhancement to improve customer user experience
• Implemented database replication across multiple read-only instances and optimized traffic routing, effectively reducing database load by 75% and eliminating customer impact

BetterCloud

Tech Lead • 12/21 - 02/24

• Designed, architected, and led implementation team to develop data ingestion pipeline that secured $5M third-party contract
• Guided software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance
• Mentored and upskilled engineers via design reviews and tech strategy docs, fostering a culture of ownership and technical excellence

BetterCloud

Senior Software Engineer • 07/21 - 12/21

• Improved existing infrastructure system to process over 6 billion events daily by utilizing Google's BigTable scalability and throughput
• Partnered with Product leadership to strategize and organize strategic roadmap goals, translating them into actionable, short-term deliverables for cross-functional teams
• Drove end-to-end ownership of mission-critical services, delivering scalable technical solutions while reducing time to delivery from months to weeks and creating clear business impact

BetterCloud

Software Engineer 2 • 06/19 - 07/21

• Created automated testing suites to reduce time to delivery and promote more frequent releases
• Spearheaded use of in-house built egress gateway to reduce time needed for teams to integrate with third-party APIs and align engineering to adopt new frameworks
• Coordinated with other engineers for feedback when designing new internal APIs using OpenAPI specification

BetterCloud

Software Engineer • 02/19 - 06/19

• Collaborated with project managers to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on prerelease software project development
• Designed intuitive graphical user interfaces for internal tools to assist support teams in prioritizing and resolving customer-facing issues with data-driven decision making
• Participated in continuous improvement reviews with SRE to identify tech debt and develop and execute strategies to reduce infrastructure costs

General Motors IT

Software Developer • 05/15 - 02/19

• Designed architecture for high-availability cloud-based applications
• Increased maximum throughput of application by 12x
• Collaborated with business, testing teams, and developers to gather requirements, design test cases, coordinate project planning
• Spearheaded initiative to achieve 90% code coverage among developers
• Led development teams using multiple development strategies including agile and iterative
• Reduced incident tickets by 36% while supporting 40% increase of users

Projects

• Rewrote legacy monolithic application into suite of micro-services that meet Twelve-Factor Application standards
• Managed off-boarding and on-boarding of users from declining applications to their replacements
• Enhanced front-end using Ext JS to allow users to make custom dashboards
• Ported desktop application to web application using Angular JS and Spring Boot
• Designed and developed web application using Angular 5, Spring Boot, and MongoDb for Must Ministries
• Engineered video streaming system for Peachtree Curling Association including provisioning hardware, network administration, and scripting

Education

Georgia Southern University

Bachelor's in Computer Science • Minor in Music Technology • 2015

During my time at Georgia Southern I excelled in classes involving software engineering, web development, and database management. Aside from my regular studies, I assisted a research team with optimizing physical simulations and conducted a a study in 3D graphics. In my free time I played bassoon in concert bands and the orchestra while also playing clarinet in the marching band. For four years I held an officer position in a chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity and was a member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society.

Skills

• Experience with leadership roles, fast-paced learning environments, problem-solving, hardware and software troubleshooting, and computer design and construction
• Cloud first design experience with GCP & AWS and containerizing modern applications for Kubernetes
• Knowledge of SQL & NoSQL, ETL/ELT data pipelines, and database design
• Understanding of Object-Oriented Design, Agile, Iterative, and Waterfall Development Methodologies
• Familiarity with RESTful & SOAP web services and frameworks including Spring Boot and Angular

  • Java
  • Angular
  • Spring Boot
  • SQL
  • Javascript

Client Testimonials

  • Alex has shown promise as a good learner and delivers the tasks assigned to him Independently. He is organized and understands his tasks. He also communicates well by asking relevant questions.

    Priya Sharma - IT Manager

  • Alex takes a great deal of pride in what he does and he works very hard to achieve the exact results that the business is looking for. He is a self-motivated individual who makes valuable contributions to the achievement of short term and long term goals. It is very enjoyable to work with him, he is a reliable and intelligent person with a good sense of humor.

    Meaghan Thomson - Co-Worker